{"title":"Excitation of thorium-229 brings a working nuclear clock closer","authors":"Senne Starckx","doi":"10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/06","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A nuclear clock based on thorium-229 is one step closer after researchers in Germany and Austria have shown that they can put nuclei of the isotope into a low-lying metastable state.","PeriodicalId":54613,"journal":{"name":"Physics World","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2024-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Physics World","FirstCategoryId":"101","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/37/06/06","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"PHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A nuclear clock based on thorium-229 is one step closer after researchers in Germany and Austria have shown that they can put nuclei of the isotope into a low-lying metastable state.